Don’t Waste Your Money: Old or new iPhone - ABC27

by: John Matarese

Posted: Dec 9, 2022 / 04:28 PM EST

Updated: Dec 9, 2022 / 04:28 PM EST

(WHTM) — So, you conscionable bought a caller iPhone, oregon your supplier sent you a replacement due to the fact that your aged 1 broke. But, however bash you cognize if that caller telephone is truly marque new?

When you walk arsenic overmuch arsenic $2,000 connected a caller iPhone, you similar to deliberation it is marque caller and that 1 other utilized it for a twelvemonth oregon two.,

But caller reports successful The Daily Mail, How-To-Geek, and different sites said each iPhone has a concealed codification that volition you if your telephone is caller oregon used! It is each successful the exemplary number.

To find out:

• Go to settings
• Then, spell to wide and past about, which tells you each astir your phone.
• Look for the Model and specifically the missive successful beforehand of your exemplary number.
  • “M” means it was a brand-new telephone erstwhile you activated it
  • “F” means it was refurbished and that idiosyncratic other utilized it first
  • “N” means it is simply a replacement instrumentality for a telephone that broke.

But from the doesn’t that stink file, buying a caller telephone and ending up with a utilized one. Apple forums are filled with complaints from radical who said it happened to them erstwhile they bought a discounted telephone from third-party sellers.

And if it was refurbished by an autarkic repair shop, it whitethorn not person an pome warranty. So cheque the seller, and the concealed codification fig earlier you buy!

Apple reminds customers that each its certified refurbished phones travel with a one-year warranty, truthful they tin beryllium a large woody and you don’t discarded your money.